costful

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Expensive; sumptuous. archaic
  2. Indicative of expenditure or loss; costly.
    — The fight against improved means, methods and materials in the construction industry, in shipping by rail or by sea, in the printing industry and most everywhere has been hugely costful to American consumers and involves a great waste of resources.

词形变化

more costful comparative most costful superlative

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词源

From Middle English costful, equivalent to cost + -ful. Perhaps influenced by Middle English costful (“fraught with hardship”), a different word.
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